This is one of those feel-good stories you don’t hear very often. The last one I can remember was when the Florida Legislature’s attempt to curtail the voting rights of minorities and other assorted likely Democratic voters created a backlash that actually increased turnout by those groups.

Now we have the Legislature and Gov. Rick Scott, who refuse to acknowledge that Obamacare is the law of the land, duly passed by Congress and even upheld by the Roberts Supreme Court. This time, They’ve done everything they possibly can to gum up the works in hopes it will fail.

As a final nail in the coffin, Scott ordered the state health department to prevent access to its offices by Obamacare “navigators,” those trained to help the average citizen thread his way through the thickets of the insurance exchanges. These offices happen to be the best places to find underserved, uninsured people who are in desperate need of health care, so it would make sense to locate in them. But it’s more important to Scott to see the Affordable Care Act fail than to aid those it was designed to help.

Fortunately, Broward and Pinellas counties, whose local governments happen to put the welfare of their citizens before political ideology, have come up with an ingenious work-around to the navigator problem, to wit: since the buildings belong to the counties in question, and the state only leases space in them, the owners (the counties) have control over who does and does not have access. Welcome, navigators.

That Rick Scott and the Legislature would rather see the citizens of their state fall sick and die than hand Barack Obama a political victory means that they have, at the very least, a wobbly moral compass. They can spout all the righteous small-government dogma they want, but ultimately they are no better than passersby who stand and shoot video with their cellphones rather than help a heart attack victim on the street.

Over the years, the Broward County Commission and its shenanigans have been a source of recurring shame. For once, by voting 8-1 to allow access by ACA Navigators, commissioners can stand tall, knowing that they’ve done the right thing for their people. I hate to say it, but, "Bravo!"